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The Tiger at 1984 Reagan-Bush rally in Greenville
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May 1, 2024, 4:49 PM
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Since colleges all over America are in the political news today, I thought y'all might like to see a flashback to how it was in the 80s.
https://youtu.be/qKfYA1RS8tM?t=1455
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The Tiger appears at the 24:15 mark***
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Re: The Tiger at 1984 Reagan-Bush rally in Greenville
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May 1, 2024, 5:04 PM
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SocMan2
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Clemson Class of 1984
Long live Reagan & The Tiger. Keeping it classy. All these years later.
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Thanks for posting...
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May 1, 2024, 5:05 PM
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remember that day well.
Rocky the Tiger® were you there too?
And why didn't they include the part where we played Tiger Rag for the Pres? That ain't rite.
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Oh yeah - getting the new sousaphones through the metal detectors.***
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May 1, 2024, 6:13 PM
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Re: Oh yeah - getting the new sousaphones through the metal detectors.***
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May 3, 2024, 7:54 AM
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I was there with Tiger Band too! I remember my roommate being really mad that we all were "forced" to go to a campaign event. I thought it was awesome. 
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It WAS awesome - historic - and not politically based - dude was The President
May 3, 2024, 11:32 AM
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of the United States.
And he was in lil' ol' Greenville - and lil' ol' Tiger Band played some tunes for him . . . .
Pert cool if you ask me.
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Different time and very different leader. Oh to have that now!!***
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May 1, 2024, 5:27 PM
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40 years later...
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May 1, 2024, 5:34 PM
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We are now seeing how bad Reagan's policies were and are.
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Re: 40 years later...
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May 1, 2024, 5:38 PM
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still waiting on that trickle down!
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Re: 40 years later...
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May 1, 2024, 5:45 PM
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that doesn't surprise anyone.. what form do you want it handed to you?
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Re: 40 years later...
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May 2, 2024, 10:06 AM
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People wanting their fair share isn't a hand out.
American production has skyrocketed since then and the only thing that has gone with it is C-suite compensation package.
Distribution of wealth is more lopsided in America than France before their revolution.
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Re: 40 years later...
May 2, 2024, 10:58 PM
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yeah, the wealth gap exist world wide.
That gap accelerated in the US during the Clinton Admin. Remember when American labor started to be off-shored to poor, unskilled workers in countries with the worse corruption and wealth gap. I think it's called globalization. Imagine the entire world with the politicians and top 1% having all the wealth (power).
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Re: 40 years later...
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May 1, 2024, 5:39 PM
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Wrong.
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His policies decimated the middle class.***
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Re: His policies decimated the middle class.***
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May 1, 2024, 5:56 PM
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LOL no, it expanded it, I was there.
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Re: His policies decimated the middle class.***
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Probably weren’t paying attention. Many families stayed in the middle class by adding a second income. It certainly didn’t expand.
That 82-83 recession was every bit as bad as 08-09, but all the higher paying blue collar jobs never came back.
Crime increased continuously under Reagan and Bush, and didn’t start to decrease until Clinton. Crime decreased continuously till partway through Trump, when it drastically increased, but it’s now back to pre-Trump levels and decreasing again.
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Re: His policies decimated the middle class.***
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May 1, 2024, 6:13 PM
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You mean like the current 38% approval rating leader? Reagan's approval rating soared to a high of 73%.
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Re: His policies decimated the middle class.***
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that's cause he was giving out free money to everyone with a pulse, now we are 35 trillion in debt due to his fiscal fantasies that trickle down would generate enough revenue to pay the, well obvious budget deficits. Then he slowly dismantled our antitrust laws, deregulated the FCC into the horrific cable news landscape we have today, and created a financial services sector rife with fraud, greed, and corrupting forces on our politicians.
But he was very charismatic and good-looking, so there is that.
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Re: His policies decimated the middle class.***
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It was great compared to the Cater failure preceeding Reagan. Imagine a democrat president, 13% interest home loans, inflation gone wild, wages stuck, worker layoffs, and then a rebublican president, tax cuts, interest rates falling, job growth and only 3% inflation and there you have it. After that fiasco, I shook the Democrat dust off my feet and never looked back.
BTW, the Reagan policies benefited the country through Clinton. 911 threw curve ball at us.
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Re: His policies decimated the middle class.***
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May 3, 2024, 9:09 AM
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You are mixing things up. Inflation was high under Carter, but so was wage growth and unemployment was very low. The layoffs and stagnant wages came under Reagan, along with the worst recession since the 1930s. The high interest rates were also under Reagan, but try 20% for home loans. High interest rates were how they tamed inflation, but it caused the recession and led to permanent job losses. It took until 1995 or 1996 to get back to 1979-80 real household income.
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Re: His policies decimated the middle class.***
May 3, 2024, 11:44 AM
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I lived through it with a young family and there was nothing good by the time Reagan defeated Carter. Before Reagans re-election on 1984 things were on the upswing. You should have listened to Nancy Reagan and just said no.
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Re: His policies decimated the middle class.***
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You’re still remembering things out of order. In 1980-81, unemployment was low but inflation was high. By the end of 82, 1 out of 8 people were out of work. Sometime in that first term, the CIA started the islamist madrases with Saudi backing. And we started supplying weapons to Iran, by way of Israel, while publicly supporting Saddam. Even after he gassed the Kurds. Reagan’s policies led to Al Quaeda and modern terrorism as we know it. But he was funny in that movie with the chimp.
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Re: His policies decimated the middle class.***
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Actually it was Clinton who decimated the middle class and the process accelerated with each new president except Trump. At this point, there is virtually no middle class.
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Re: His policies decimated the middle class.***
May 3, 2024, 7:06 PM
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I take it you were born after 2000? 1995-2000 are some of the best years this country will ever see. Poverty dropped to an all-time low, crime decreased every year, and we actually balanced the federal budget. Home ownership accelerated throughout that time and a bigger proportion of the country owned their living quarters than ever before. Banks did get greedy in that housing boom, made a ton of mistakes, and caused the mortgage crisis in 98. Just like the S&L crisis, deregulation was at fault.
A lot of the benefits you get now were enacted in that time - tuition tax credits, family leave, and protection of your health insurance if you lost a job.
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Re: His policies decimated the middle class.***
May 3, 2024, 7:07 PM
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Mortgage crisis was in 2008. S&L crisis was in 88-89. At both times, my personal banking was with now-defunct banks.
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I was there
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May 1, 2024, 5:46 PM
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Secret Service made us take the sticks out of our Tigers for Reagan banner
Got some cool pictures that day - I need to find them.
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Re: The Tiger at 1984 Reagan-Bush rally in Greenville
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No wonder I was unaware of this visit, it was just a couple of months after my dad died unexpectedly and quite young. I did vote for Reagan that year, very happy that I did. Interesting, in 1984, he carried every state except Mondale's home state of Minnesota and Mondale only captured 0.18% more votes there than Reagan.(That's right, less than 1/5 of a percent!)
Great times!
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Re: The Tiger at 1984 Reagan-Bush rally in Greenville
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He truly saved America. The military became the strongest ever after Carter destroyed it. The middle class by the late 80's was doing great. There was hope that America wouldn't turn out to be a socialist country. He gave us the opportunity to work hard and make a great life for ourselves. The lazy liberals hated him because the government handouts stopped. He had no tolerance for weak liberal victims who couldn't make it without government help. What a man.
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Re: The Tiger at 1984 Reagan-Bush rally in Greenville
May 3, 2024, 9:14 AM
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There’s a direct cause-and-effect connection between his foreign policy and 9/11. Reagan/Bush policies both.
Read Ghost Wars.
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Re: The Tiger at 1984 Reagan-Bush rally in Greenville
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He was my favorite President, and I am proud that I campaigned for him in 1980 and was old enough to vote for him in 1984. He restored Americans’ confidence in their government and military, while working across the aisle with Tip O’Neil to get legislation passed. And let’s not forget that little Berlin Wall thing, either.
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Re: The Tiger at 1984 Reagan-Bush rally in Greenville
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He restored Americans’ confidence in their government
Lollers, he literally said "Government is not the solution, it is the problem,", or "don't trust someone who stays I am from the government and I am here to help you." then began the slow process that occurring over the last 40 years to dismantle trust in our federal agencies in an attempt to privatize our government spending. His policies were like putting Nitrous in our collectove gas tanks, we got a nice boost there for a while, but ultimately damaged the engine, and we have been repairing it with duct tape ever since.
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Re: The Tiger at 1984 Reagan-Bush rally in Greenville
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He warned us against socialist people like Obama and Biden. He wanted to give every American a chance to succeed. He definitely wouldn't approve of men competing in women's sports. He wouldn't approve of liberals hating Jews like we see today on our college campuses.
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Listen Bud,
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and I am an unabashed liberal, but we have not had a decent president since Nixon, unfortunately, the pressure of the job got to him.
Reagan opened Pandora's box for Wall Street, and there is no going back,
Bush Sr was better informed, and another good president, but he said "no new taxes", and we voted him out.. The Mob is Fickle
Clinton Picked up where Ronny left off and sold this country up the river .
ush and Cheney were the worst
Obama was more of the same, calling him a socialist is laughable.
Trump was breath of fresh air, and a reminder that we are a republic, but he is not that smart and a whiney bitch.
Joe is well, too old and the last person "us" Democrats want in office.
I do not know where it leaves us, except the point I am making is that I am not a partisan.
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Re: Listen Bud,
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I hope AI reads this into its machine learning algorithms.
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Wrong Bored Looser.***
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That was neat. Thank you for sharing.***
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Re: The Tiger at 1984 Reagan-Bush rally in Greenville
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Very cool. I like Presidential history no matter who was in office right or left I don't really care.
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I was there!
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May 2, 2024, 8:21 AM
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Fun day. Last of the great presidents.
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Re: The Tiger at 1984 Reagan-Bush rally in Greenville
May 3, 2024, 10:25 AM
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Was a sophomore at Clemson then. I remember a debate broke out in my accounting class the next day because some students and our professor said it was undignified to have the Tiger up there on stage.
I still stand and salute when an image of RR comes on the TV, as all fine loyal Americans should do...
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